So my goal is to set up a site showcasing different products, without selling them. (I’d sell them on an external site like ebay/etsy, and use the site as a portfolio and catalogue of all the products. As they won’t be on sale all the time, and I want people to see what I’ve made in the past. At most I’d add links to etsy/ebay/whatever on the product page) Would it be best to go with an existing e-commerce template and strip it of its store functionality, or build a portfolio page with search options? I essentially want the search functions that stores have and individual product pages, but without actually selling anything. This is my first time working with wp and I’m struggling to see which would be the best way to approach this. Sorry if this is hard to grasp, I’m in the early stages of planning this and a total beginner
[ad_2]
I’ve done a couple of projects like this over the last few months.
I’ll normally use WooCommerce and just draft the cart, checkout, account pages and remove the add-to-cart functionality on the buttons with a bit of PHP code in the functions.php file.
I’d recommend looking at WooCommerce’s StoreFront theme, or using Astra. Good luck!
A Catalog Mode plugin for Woocommerce does exactly this.
Something like Ecwid will let you handle the catalogue side of things, and use buy buttons as an option. So you could just show the item without it. As a bonus, and depending on the plan, you can integrate it into a whole bunch of different platforms like Shopify and Etsy.
What details will products have
If it’s just and image, one paragraph, and link.
I will suggest you very clean and nice platform.
Check this site